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Valve stiction is the major cause of problems in process plant control loops. It often severely reduces controller performance and the development of a method to detect stiction is required to achieve efficient operations. In this paper, a method of qualitative shape analysis is extended to deal with qualitative movements in X-Y plots. By using this qualitative analysis method, an algorithm to detect valve stiction is proposed. The detection method is applied to several control loops of a real industrial plant and shows excellent performance in detection of valve stictions.
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Yamashita, Y. (2004). Qualitative Analysis for Detection of Stiction in Control Valves. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3214. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30133-2_50
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